The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute team first spotted the "mystery mollusc" in 2000, about 8,500 feet below the ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

The outer reaches of our solar system just got a little more crowded, with astronomers spotting a previously unseen moon ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down ...

A new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, officials said.

Lockwood, the lead author of the paper, named the new dinosaur Istiorachis macarthurae. Istiorachis means ‘sail spine’ in ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases.